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A Letter from World Report News to the Public on September 19th, 2014:

ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND CIVILIANS died in the 1991 Operation Desert Storm and Gulf War between the United States and Iraq. For the next twelve years after the war, the United States bombed and, along with the United Nations, sanctioned Iraq. The United States bombed every single water treatment facility in the country and prohibited Iraq from importing the materials necessary for rebuilding those facilities. They also bombed every major electrical generation facility and limited the capability to rebuild them. As a result, Five hundred thousand Iraqis died of water-borne illnesses in this period, most of them young children whose health was most at-risk. By the time the Bush administration began speaking to the public of war against Iraq in 2002, American policy had already caused the deaths of approximately 1.1 million civilians. That number, again, is 1.1 million, out of a country of less than twenty million in 1991 (most of those who died did so in the early nineties). That toll does not include any deaths in or after the year 2003. Had Americans, en masse, known these numbers, seen the faces of those who had lost their lives, known their stories-- had they come to value and understand these lives as meaningful, and had they realized their government's policies had caused such awful devastation-- had all of this occurred, it is nearly inconceivable that a 2003 invasion of Iraq would have enjoyed any meaningful support from Americans. In greater likelihood, the U.S. would not have invaded Iraq. And today's awful consequences of that invasion would not be taking up our news headlines every single morning.

After our two year hiatus, World Report News will be launching back up again soon. With the generous support of donors, WRN will be bigger and better than ever. Our new directors and executives are veterans in the fields of media and conflict affairs. Instead of a small student journal, our new mandate is to offer an alternative, more accurate, and more empathetic international news frame for Americans and English-speaking internationals than current mass media provides.

Our new company has been rebuilt from the ground up, with new directors, new executives, and a brand new mission. That mission is to cover violence in emerging and escalating states around the world, to explore the causes of and attitudes toward that violence, and to include methods for conflict resolution as a part of news coverage. Our aim is to identify risk, to address the causes of risk through information and awareness, to prevent violence in its earliest phases, and to follow through on conflict converge until peace has been restored.

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The views and opinions expressed in the articles are those of their respective authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of World Report News. World Report News encourages debate and tries to find conflicting opinions for the purpose of resolving any differences between them that can or currently do lead to violence.